Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters.
~Hoshi no Hikari~ Revenge
Rin's fifteenth birthday was today, a day that she was expecting to be filled with surprises and laughter alongside her few friends and her cherished lord. Rin was proud of the woman she had become, certainly she was attractive with her smooth, long straight brown hair with curls at its ends that reached her thighs. Her mesmerising big brown eyes that reflected her innocent heart and happiness. While every village men felt pleasure just by admiring such allure, these traits had proved to be her demise as every girl in the village envied this naive girl for her beauty, clothing that could make every Hime in Japan drown in jealousy and most of all that kind heart.
Now there she lay accused of crimes that her mind could not comprehend, her hands were tied from behind to a pole in the middle of the village. Blood kept flowing down her body staining her shredded kimono and garnishing her battered petite figure.
She was crying silently as tears kept pouring down her bruised cheeks, her eyes stung due to the smoke of the fire, that was agravating her already puffy eyes. Each ragged breath feeling as if knives were potruding through her lungs exalting her previous pleading cries for her savior.
In front of the girl was one of the village men ,"Hey Rin! Why don't you keep calling your demon lord? HAHAHA! Who knows maybe he will come to save you!" The village man kept looking at Rin with contempt in his eyes and behind him, the rest of the villagers started to laugh celebrating the pain and humiliation of the young girl.
"Fushoujiki", Onryō one of the village men said, "untie her and bring her forward, the fire is already powerful enough or if our little witch is ready to confess for her crime..."
Rin inhaled and with much effort managed to open her bloody lips and said almost faintly " I d- din't do it... I didn't kill Kaede, I am not a WITCH!", thus inciting the already enraged villagers.
Fushoujiki untied Rin, supported her up and closing the gap within them whispered to her ear , " Rin, you could have avoided this fate if you had answered yes to my marriage proposal, but you had to be in love with that... demon... now you are going to suffer", he lifted his knee in a fast enough motion through Rin's stomach. Rin fell to the floor gasping for air , wincing in pain and silently crying.
Fushoujiki got a hold of her already broken hands and started dragging her to the wooden panels near the fire. Surely, she had done nothing to deserve this she thought. This day had started like any other day, so why did it turn out into this nightmare?
Inuyasha and Kagome went with their son Akihiko to the market which was a 3 days travel in search of rice, potatoes and meat for the approaching winter. Sango and Miroku had been gone for a week with the twins and son in order to get them used to the forest and later on they would help Inuyasha and Kagome with the things. Shippo was traveling for his training and would reunite with the gang in the market. I had stayed to take care of Kaede because lately she had been having an acute chest pain and Kagome had feared that it was her heart.
The morning had started with the same routine, I was following Kaede to Inuyasha's Forest in search of medicinal herbs. When we were picking the herbs suddenly Kaede put her hands on her chest and fell to the ground. "Kaede, are you all right!", Kaede then answered " Yes... It happens every time", "Rin, If something were to happen to me I want you to be strong, I won't be there to protect you from the villagers anymore". "Kaede, nothing is going to happen to you", I said reassuringly.
Then we kept picking herbs when we finished, I was carrying the basket filled with herbs and supporting Kaede by the shoulders back to the village. Back in the village Fushoujiki was looking at me with anger in his eyes because I had rejected his marriage proposal. The rest of the villagers had their eyes fixed on Kaede showing concern and switching their gazes at me with disdain firing in their eyes.
They didn't like me because I was often visited by Lord Sesshomaru and everytime he came to see me, he would bring an extravagant gift. The people in the village would often call me names like the "Demon Whore", but I didn't want Lord Sesshomaru to know. He came for me every winter and this winter wasn't going to be different, I was going to spent it with him in his castle on the Western lands.
That is when my nightmare started, unexpectedly Kaede let out a scream of pain and fell on the ground, "KAEDE!", I was screaming, what was happening? Kaede was trembling on the ground, looking at me with tears on her eyes. I quickly knelt beside her and touched her face, "Kaede, what's wrong?". Kaede closed her eyes and tears ran down her cheeks. By that time I had lost control of my emotions, "KAEDE!".
Instantly the villagers started surrounding Kaede and Fushoujiki put his hands on Kaede's neck. With a sullen look he said, " Kaede's dead".
"WITCH!", Onryō started screaming referring to me and in chorus the rest of the villagers started chanting, "WITCH!", "BURN", "DIE!". One of the village girls walked up front silencing the chant and looked at me, " You killed Kaede, in order to go back to your DEMON!".
That is when the angered villagers came running towards me and started kicking me, some threw rocks at me. When I fell on the ground I heard a disturbing "CRACK" sound and there it was that instant pain in my right arm. It started getting painful to breathe, it felt as if the edge of a sword was piercing my skin. The pain was too much to bear not only I was suffering from Kaede's death but also from physical pain.
The village leader stopped the villagers by saying, " People stop!, I had allowed Inuyasha in this village because he helps our Miko Kagome and he still has human blood on him BUT this girl is obviously possessed by that DEMON and has killed our Miko Kaede!"
Fushoujiki suggested, " In vengeance we should burn this witch who in unison with that wretched demon has killed Kaede!"
The villagers dragged me from my broken arm and tied me to a pole in the middle of the village while they prayed for Kaede's soul and later on burned her body. The villagers were looking at me as if they were watching a prey.
One of them threw a stone at me, others followed but Onryō said, " Let us not kill her yet, she should be punished severely for this offense! Let us punish her and burn her at night!"
One villager screamed, "YEAH, we should let her feel the same suffering she has inflicted on Kaede!"
The villagers kept hitting and kicking me, it was so painful but nothing was worst than when they made fun of my pleading cries, "LORD SESSHOMARU!", laughter and more laughter that is all that I could hear. After they got tired of watching me suffer, they left in order to prepare for my awaiting torture.
It was already setting dusk and I was woken up by possibly the only friend I had apart of Inuyasha and the gang. Shiawase was looking at me with sadness in her eyes, with a shivering hand she touched my face and said, "Rin, I am going to find help, You will live I promise". She stealthily moved away from me and looked around to see if anyone was watching. Then disappeared into the forest.
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